Genie in a bottle

[Lord George]

Your all thinking too small, immortality, lots of money, some knowledge what I'd wish for would be to become God of all time and space.

 

[Aelfric Raven]

Omnipotence, so I can do everything that is logically possible. I can then make myself omnipresent and omniscient.

This.

 

[NeoAlpha]

I'd wish he'd be my wish granting servant forever.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

I'd make a wish for are game to get made and make us lots of money! =D


since none of my other wishes come true i thought I'd take this long shot XD

 

[aww yea]

id quite like to be other people sometimes

 

[paragon1]

The ability to control all content on the internet. Also, one trillion dollars. Although, now that I think about it, wishing for money might be a bad idea. One of two things could happen.
1. He takes the money from someone else, and they get REALLY pissed off at you.
2. He simply creates it, and hyperinflation ensues making my new money worthless (same thing would apply to gold and such). Quite the conundrum.

 

[shadowstriker86]

If you found a bottle that had a genie in it, what would your wish be?

(There are different kinds of genies that grant different numbers of wishes. This one grants one, not three.)

the power to be able to bring whatever i draw to life, and the details written on the page coincide with what was drawn.

i.e., if i draw a picture of a tube with red liquid inside and the detail written next to it says "Potion that will let me transform into SSJ3 (super sayjin 3 for the confused)" and i bring it to life, i will be able to transform into a SSJ3 after drinking the potion.

 

[RebelRising]

A societal and political return to Rationalism.

Interesting. The only problem is, what's rational usually only applies to your point of view. I'm not saying that there can't be objective truths - but we all like to believe that we're rational and that raving lunacy is exclusive to everyone else.

Politically, it'd work better for a dictator than a society that embraces a plurality of perspectives. Think about it, there wouldn't be two (and more) political parties if we could all agree on a single rational truth.

Absolutely agree with you on the dictator. So often nowadays democracy has abandoned the pretense of respectful debate and rational exchange of views for a system that runs on who can shout the loudest and in the most numbers. Dictators haven't had a good run in terms of how people outside their regime view them. Still, as it stands, my favorite leaders have always been absolutist rulers, authoritarians and dictators. If there was a dictator who was opened-minded, but still had the final word on everything, I couldn't think of a better system.

Furthermore, I think there are a number of objective truths, the most pivotal one for me being equal rights and treatment. You wouldn't believe how many roadblocks we encounter over here (America) in terms of gay rights. Prop. 8 was a sobering reminder to me that our government still runs on a "mob rule" type of democracy.

I am reminded of the Genesis quote:

"There's too many people making too many problems."

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Equal rights and treatment as an objective truth? That's not a truth, and even if you believe it is, not everyone will agree with you.

I'm not suggesting in any way that a dictatorship would be superior to democracy - I'm just saying we're not as rational as we think we are. We all think we're right, but some of us vote for different people or support different ideologies - but they can't all be right if some of them conflict, and the answer's not always obvious. And even when we do find what seems to be irrefutable truth, you're going to get a lot of people who disagree because they know the truth and as far as they're concerned you're wrong. And do you always know you know better?

One man's benevolent king is another man's cruel tyrant.